Occupation: Former Prime Minister Of Australia Birth: December 20, 1894 Death: May 15, 1978
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example..
One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year..
"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion..
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects ….
We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing i….
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness..
When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought"..
A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . ..
Two days in this city is worth two months in New York..
Modern history is, as you all know, full of examples of great movements that disappeared because they had ceased to have any genuine reason for exist….
I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women..
Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strive….
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that ….
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, th….
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blo….
Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising..
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north..
I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die..
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech..
More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility..
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success..